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fadory ; and the greateft motive for purfuing 

 the culture with Ipirit. 



The fame year, upon half an acre of clay 

 knd, fummer and winter fallowed, another 

 experiment was made on cabbages by plant- 

 ing them with a plough. About midfummer 

 a furrow was drawn, the plants laid in, 

 and covered by the ridge of another furrow ; 

 then the land was ploughed in the common 

 manner, until the furrow was at four feet 

 diftance from the row of plants, when it 

 was filled in the fame manner as before ; 

 and fo the work was continued till finiflied. 

 Moft of thefe plants lived, but were after- 

 wards very backward, neither cabbaged nor 

 throve well. They were eaten by fheep at 

 Martinmas, 



In 1766, two acres more were cultivated, 

 upon a clay foil, an oat ftubble, winter 

 fallowed. At the end of Mzy, this field 

 was planted with the plough in the fame 

 manner as before, only a good handful of 

 dung being laid by the planters upon the 

 root of every cabbage. They were horfe- 

 hoed twice, and hand-weeded as often. 

 This crop turned out very good, the average 

 weight per cabbage being \\lb, but yet 

 the opinion was that this way of planting 

 was by no means equal to dibbling them. 

 They were begun to be ufed about Martin- 

 was^ with fat oxen ; eight or nine were 

 feeding on them, fome for a fortnight, fome 



a month, 



